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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-10-13
WHY Dol LOVE THEE?
Why do | love thee?

Ask the bee that sips
Nectar divine from out the willing flower,
Why it abideth upon those open lips,
Wherefore it wingeth around that elfin
bower,
And when thou dost this sunny secret
Thou wilt not marvel that love thee so.
Why do love thee?
ASK the meadow green
Why it doth love the flower that blooms
above it,
Whose sweet perfume or rainbow tinted
sheen
O'erspread their charm above the fields
that love it,
And when thou dost this tender secret
know,
Thou wilt not marvel that love thee so.
Why do love thee?
Ask the bird that sings
OF smiling skies and valleys rose-embow-
Why from his heart his happy carol
springs,
Why on the air its melody is showered,
And when thou dost this joyous secret
know
Thou wilt not marvel that love thee SO.
Why do love thee?
Ask the artist crowned
With fairest thought, his rare ideal grow
Wherefore he stands upon enchantrd
ground,
Why his proud eye with rapture light is
glowing;
And when thou dost this subtle secret
know
Thou wilt not marvel that love thee so.
Why do love thee?
Ask of him who hears
SOund-woven poetry of strains elys;an
NI.&vh hna narto md Il fNxyifI hn6
tears,
Swayed by the magic of the rapt musician :;
And when thou dost this WonderOus
secret know
Thou wilt not marvel that love thee so.
Why do love thee?
Ask the burdened heart
Weighed with sin, forlorn and anguish
riven,
Why, as the tears from out the eyelids
start,
Peace comes in gazing on the star-pure
Heaven;
{ And when thou dost this holy secret
No longer marvel that | love thee so.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-10-13

In THE October number of Serib-
ner's Magazine is poem, 8. Rebel or
Royalist?" by Maurice Thompson,
which, despite its lack of absolute
originality in subject, has some fine,
manly sentiments that will find echo
in many Southern hearts. We print
a few verses:
l was rebel. if you please,
A reckless fighter to the last;
Nor do fall upon my knees
And beg forgiveness for the past.
A traitor? l a traitor? No!
| was patriot to the core:
The South was mine [ loved her so,
1gsve her ALL could no more.
1 clasp the hand that made my scars,
| cheer the flag my foemen bore
| shout for joy to see the stars
All on our common shield once more.
l do not cringe before you now,
Or lay my face upon the ground
l am man, of men peer,
And not a covering, cudgeled hound.
I stand and say you were right;
greet yOu with uncovered head,
Remembering many a thundcrous fight.
Where whistling death between us sped.
Mr.. Thompson though now resid-
ing in the Wcst-in the State of In
diana-is Southerner by birth, and
was gallant soldier on the Confed-
crate side during the late war. His
poem we'll defines the present attitude
OF the South !; and will be read by
thousands of his old comrades in arms
who are to-day no less loyal to the
Union for all that.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-10-13
VOL. VI.
THE DARKEST HOUR.

For a period Of f,ue years I've been a
victim of very severe and agOulz ng
case OF Salt kheum which affected my
hands to such an tx ent that they almost
become burden.
My hand became raw and h1rrifyin@,
compelling me 10 keep it covered all the
tlm".
I'Se spent hunfr ads of dol ars for vari
Gus prepa a,iJns, but instead of beue-
fitting my condition, they all seemed
TO stimulate and encourage tae progress
Of tie ni-erabie disease, until 1 hal
alb ut given up all hope.
But thank heaven. 1.-The darkest hour
is just before day, and / rejoice to
know that positive cure has been found,
which is known as b. B. B.-Botanic
Blood Balm.
My f'mIIy all rejoice at its magical
curative powers in giving me relief.
My hand has been cured and resem bles
n burnt surface after being hea'ed over
more than al ything else. 1t has also
Cured my two chi ,dren OF a lOathesome
form OF 1t, b which had resisted all pre-
vious treatment. l refer 10 any business
huuse in Moody and to Thomas Payne,
Druggist, of whom L purchased the
goods. Signed,
w. A. BRYANT.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-10-13
NORTH AND SOUTH.
How the Son of Northern General and
Southern Generals Daughter Be-
haved.
New York Letter.


To one of our resorts there came
ten years ago a dignihed Southern
General, with his wife, and a daughter
Eso lovely that all who saw her were
chained. The first few weeks the South
! E'ern visitors were quite exclusive, and
|trowned upon any attempt of the citl-
'zens of the North to get acquainted
with them. They came simply tor a
change of air, and did not care for
society. A Northern General, with
|Ihis family, stopped at the same house,
Eand there was a son in that family.
There almost always is a son in a
Northern family when there is a pref
kty girl around. The two Generals
fwere introduced, but for weeks they
only passed the time of day, and were
so dignifed that it was wonder they
did not break their backs. The lady
from the South became interested in
tthe young gentleman of the North,
land before anybody had realized that
ia calamity had befallen the two fami-
lies they were head and ears in love.
fThe Southern General was mad, and
j that made the Northern General mad ,
and there were stormy times about
! the cool resort on the lake. The old
ESoutherner stamped his feet and said
they should never marry, and the
Northern General kept cool and said if
the young folks wanted to marry, he
didn't know any reason why they
shouldn't, and as he was in love with
the girl too, and would give all he
possessed for her as a daughter, he
swore he would see that she was prop
srly eloped with. The old Confed-
rate said he would shoot up enough
Yankees for mess if they tried any
t,ch wooden nutmeg game on his fami-
y, and so they had it until the sum-
per was gone, and-well, you know
low it is yourselves. The young peo-
e coaxed, and finally the Southern
General said they could do as they
pleased, and they were married. To-
pay there are tour boys and two girls
bat have come to bless that union of
the North and South. Two of the
boys have been named after two of
the greatest Confederate Generals,
Eand two have been named after two
kgreat Northern Generals, and several
months of the summer you can see
Sthat old Confederate grandfather in
Wisconsin, the guest of the Northern
grandfather, playing with those six
youngsters, and several months of
winter the Northern General is visiting
| the South to see these children grow,
and it is a grand sight to see the two
grandfathers bending over a cradle,
looking at the youngest child, and
arguing as to which grandparent the
child resembles. The old fellows are
good friends; the Southern General
thinks his Northern son-in-law is one
of God noblemen, and the Northern
General knows that his beautiful
daughter-in-law is the sweetest woman
on earth. Ten thousand such we'd
dings between the Northern and
Southern young people would forever
silence those who may wish to see the
two sections at enmity.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-10-13

The fifteen great American inven .
tons of world wide adoption are: The
cotton gin, the planning machine, the
grass mower and reaper, the rotary
printing press, navigation by steam,
the hot air engine, the sewing ma
chine, the India rubber industry, the
machine manufacture of horse shoes,
the sand blast carving, the gauge lathe,
the grain elevator, artificial ice max
ing on large scale, the electric mag
net and its practical application, the
telephone.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-10-13

Miss Phoebe w. Couzins has been
appointed by President Cleveland L.
S. Marshal at St. Louis and has been
installed in the Office. This is the first
appointment OF a woman to this Office.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-10-13

The New YorE paFers say That the
many thousand Southern merchants
who have visited that place this fall
to purchase goods call agree that
never at any time in the past has there
been such an era of wide spread pros
perity among their people as is exhib-
ited now" This is owing as we'll to
good and abundant crops as to the
hundreds of new and successful busi-
ness industries started in the South.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-10-13

The Italian government is en-
deavoring to negotiate for e,ooo,ooo
lires," says an exchange. Jeewhlzz! |!
If the Italians take them from this
country, what how thunder We
can't conduct presidential campaign
at all next year.-Newman HGtpena-
eak.
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CUT YOUR HEAD Off

DAyE HAWKINS. THE OLDEST
II barber In Henderson. has an enri-
able reputation In the business. His
shop. over GuFrin's billiard saloon, Is
hapd<omely aud CONT: rtsbiy fitte1 up
and he gives All esey f.nFs and fAsh-
ionabie hair cut.
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-26
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MULDooN, the wrestler, is having play
written to display his muscle.
MARIE ENGLE is to have $4,000 for sing
ing in American cities this winter.
They are talking of establishing theatre
in Chicago exclusively for colored people.
A GOOD many native dramas dealing with
American subjects have been brought out
this season.
THE Edwin oth-Lawrence Barrett com.
pany drew $7,5OO in two performances in
Minneapolis.
BRONSON HowARD's new play, Henrietta,
has made an undoubted success at the Union
Square Theatre, New York.
JOHN SLEEPER CLARKE's American tour
his first in twenty years-opened in Pitts
burg recently. He revived "Widow Hunt" "
THE Wild West show concludes its London
season October 81 There is some talk of tak-
ing it to Paris, but it will probably return to
America.
Lillian OLcoTT announces that she has
purchased the American rights to produce
Sardou's new play which he has written Tor
Sarah Bernhardt.
A NOVEL feature of "Little Puck, in which
Mr.. Frank Daniels is starring, is ballet OF
infants. Twenty children are used, the Oldest
not over ten years OF age.
S1GNoR1NA TEREsINA TUA., the Italian
child of genius, who has developed into an
exquisitely beautiful young woman, will soon
give her first violin concert in this country
at Chickering Hall, New York.
SARpoU's new play, in which Sarah Bern
hardt will appear at the Porte Saint Martin,
is not to be called Deborah" rs was first re-
ported, but LA Tosca," the ename of afamous
Italian cantatrice who tlourlshed early IN
this century. The action passes at Rome: IN
$500, just after the battle of Marengo
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Boston CoRBETT, who shot John Wilkes
Booth, is hopelessly insane in Kansas.
The health of the poet Swinburne is fail
ing, and he is living quiet and uneventtul
life.
CARL ScHURz is said to be permanently
crippled by the result OF the fall on the ice
last winter.
THE continued ill-hcalth Of Lord Salisbury,
the British Premier, causes much uneaslness
among his friends.
INTERSTATE COMMISSIONER MORRISON has
been granted pension of $l2 per month as
soldier in the Mexican war.
THE Empress of Austria is no longer able
to enjoy her favorite pastime of horseback
riding. Her physicians forbid it.
Mr. CHEvREUL in the French Institute Of
Sciences occupies q chair next to that Of NJ.
Poincarre. The former is 102 and the latter
thirty three years old.
MAJoR-GRSERAL BAIRD, United States
Army, who has been attending the French
mobilization man9uvres on behalf OF our
War Department, has been decorated with
the Cross of Chevalier Of the Legion OF
Honor.
PRINCE BISMARCK possesses some OF the
largest and finest forests in Northern Ger
many, and with the exception of Prince
Furstenberg. who is Lord of Schwarzwald.
be is probably the largest timber merchant
in the Empire.
SAM SMALL, the revivalist, has pledged
his word that he will convert member OF
Congress before next summers adjournment.
He intends to hold determined revival at
Washington in December and then make
that city his permanent residence.
MRS. HETTY GREEN, Of New York, is
credited with being the largest capitalist of
her sex in the United States. Her wealth
would possibly foot up from s35, ,OO0, ,OOO to
$40, 100000. She inherited Sl3, ,OOO, 900, mar
ried 81 ,OOO,O and has made the rest by
shrewd fnanciering.
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THE COUNTRY'S CROPS.
Latest Returns Received By the
Agricultural Department.
Condition Of Corn, Wheat, Oats,
Cotton and Tobacco.

The latest statistical report Of the Depart
ment Of Agricultural makes an increase Of
only one-half of per cent. in the condition
ofcorn. The past month has been generally
favorable, but the status of large part of the
crop was fixed at the date of the previous re-
port. The general average Of condition is
72.S instead Of 1878. The average Of the seven
surplus States is 649 instead of g. in Sep
tember. This is q lower condition than has
ever been reported, except in 1881, when
the average was nearly seven points
lower, and the average yield 1876
bushels. The indication is now
for yield of small fraction over twenty
bushels per acre. The exact area, exclusive
Of that cut for fodder as not worth harvest
ing, is not yet determined. Slight uncer-
tainty regarding. it may cause variation in
the final record Of l orr per cent. from
1,500, ,000, 900 bushels.
The test Of threshing has not materially en-
larged the average rate of the wheat yield,
which appears to be about Ills bushels, or
four-tenths of q bushel less than last year.
The increase of acreage, which is large in
Dakota, will make partial compen-
Sation and bring the product nearly
or quite to 45O,O09,OOo bushels: The
rate of yield in New York is 16;7
DuSueiS, eIiHSJ lSduld lo.D, OulO lSf, uulCu-
igan 1873, Indiana 15.5, Illinois 15.2, Wiscon-
sin 1913, Minnesota 9.5, Iowa 10, Missouri II,
Kansas 80, Nebraska 1917, Dakota 10.5, Cal
ifornia 1873.
The yield of oats is slightly below an aver
age, about 25 bushels per acre. The product
is fully 6O0, ,00) bushels. In the principal
States Of the central valley region the State
averages range from 25 to 80 bushels. The
barley yield is nearly 20 per cent. less than
at medium yield, or about 20 bushels
per acre. New York 20.3, Michigan
l9.5, Wisconsin 1875, Minnesota 10,
Iowa 10, California 20.5 The yield of rye is
II S bushels per acre, and the product about
24,000, 900 bushels. There has been drop in
condition Of buckwheat from 50 to near:y
II. The condition of potatoes has declined
from 67.3 to i1.5, partly from appearance of
rot in the Atlantic States.
The condition of cotton has further de-
clined. The effect of drought in reducing
vitality and arresting growth is more ap-
parent than on the first Of September The
general average has been reduced from S3S
to 1875. 1t is still several points higher
than in 1888 and 1884, and ten points
higher than in 1881. The average of condi-
tion by States is as follows: North Carolina
78, South Carolina 70, Georgia II, Florida 70,
Alabama rs, Mississippi II, Louisiana Is,
Texas Is, Arkansas rs, Tennessee "a.
The condition of tobacco averages 75.5,
against 70.8. The figures for the States pro
ducing, shipping and cutting leaf are: Mary
land 81, Virginia 80, North Carolina 81, Ken
lucky 62, Ohio Sc, Indiana 45, Illinois 5S,
Missouri so, Tennessee 81.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS,

A NEW military post is to be established at
Denver, Col
A FIFTY-ACRE ostrich farm Is to be located
at San Rafael, Cal.
THE Pittsburg tPenn.) Iron Mills are over
crowded with orders.
MAN1ToBA's wheat crop Is in excess of the
most liberal estimates.
The country's corn crop for 1880 is esti
mated at 1910, ,000, 900 bushels.
ARGoN1A, Kansas, is jubilant over the fact
that Mrs. Salter, Mayor Of that CITY, has
given birth to son.
PEEKsKILL, N. Y, is importing colored
girls from Charlestown, s. C., to meet the
demand for domestics.
The epidemic of scarlet fever in London
is still spreading. There were, in one week.
1,G00 cases in the hospitals.
ONE of the attractions of Sacramento. Cal
is a mummy show-the remains of people OF
the Aztec race, it is supposed.
w. A. Strong, ex-Secretary of State Of
Louisiana, was sentenced recently to two
years imprisonment and to pay fine OF
$500 for endorsement.
Two recent steamers from San Francisco
for China took over 40, 600 barrels OF flour for
Yokohoma and Hong Kong. These are
probably the largest cargoes Of -four that
ever left the port by steamer.
FROM twenty-five to forty car loads OF
grapes and pears have each week for some
time been leaving California for the East.
Chicago is the best market for California
fruit, and Denver ranks next
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LATER NEWS.

R. S. HICKS, Cashier Of the Stafford
Comm National Bank, has been arrested
charged with embczzling $4,000. Hicks is
also Treasurer of the Stafford Savings Bank,
which is heavy sufferer by his downfall.
The dcfaulter is young man, and has lost
much money in cotton speculation.
THE American Bankers Association has
been in session at Pittsburg.
ROBERT GARRETT has resigned as President
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. William
F. Burns is acting as President.
A FIRE destroyed portion of the Northern
Ohio Insane Asylum, near Cleveland, Ohio.
Six maniacs perished.
FIVE of the bandits who recently abducted
Senor Berrera from the Texan side Of the
Rio Grande have been summarily executed
by the Mexican rancheros who pursued them.
QUEL1To, Mexico. town of 5000 people,
has been totally destroyed by storm. Many
lives have been lost.
THE coroner's jury at Mltchellstown, Ire
land, have brought in verdict OF murder
against the police accused Of killing several
people during the recent disturbances.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-26
Foreign.

GERMANY has paid s12, 500 as indemnity to
the family of the French gamekeeper re-
Gently killed on the frontier Of the two coun-
tries by German soldier.
MULEY Ell HAsSAN, Sultan of Morocco, is
dead.
OWING to an alarming increase in brigan-
dage, several counties in Hungary have been
placed under martial law.
SEVERE earthquake shocks have occurred
within few days i'll Greece and Cuba.
THE Austrian steamer Hapsburg colided
with and sunk Bavarian steamer on Lake
Constance. Many passengers in the cabin
were drowned.
AYACHT capsized in Lough Neagh, Ireland,
and out Of q pleasure party of dozen five
were drowned.
A French steamer was wrecked in the
Day OF oormeS, ana twenty-five passengers
were lost.
DURING..an election riot at Plevna, Bulga-
ria, twenty-four persons were killed and
thirty wounded.
A LARGE Spanish force has been ordered
to the Caroline Islands to punish the natives
for their rebellious acts. The American cor
vette Essex has been ordered to protect the
missionaries on the islands.
AYoUB KHAN, the leader of the revolt
against the Ameer Of AfghaniStan, hes been
killed in battle.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

THE Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooner
Peregrine White has picked up at sea a float
ing mass of ambergris weighing 125 pounds,
and estimated to be worth about SGO,COO.
Ambergris is secretion which comes from
whales intestines, and is highly valued for
perfumery purposes.
ALoNzo WHYLAND, seventy years old,
was gored to death by bull Oh farm near
Altion, n. Y.
COLONEL A. W. QEIST, of the Quarter
masters Department, United States Army,
committed suicide by hanging at Manchester,
n H. He had been suffering from nervous
prostration.
OGDEN, CALDER g. Co., bankers and
brokers of Troy, n. Y, have failed. The
liabilities are stated at $500, ,UO.
NINE New York and Brooklyn chandelier
manufactures shut down, owing to the mems
insistance upon the Half Holiday law. Be-
tween 5000 and 1000 brass workers were
thrown out of employment.
A GREAT public reception was given by
the citizens of Boston in Faneuil Hall to
General Paine and Mr.. Burgess, the owner
and the designer Of the yacht Volunteer,
winner of the recent international race.
A BODY of about l5O New York policemen
mistook an order, and with drawn clubs dis
persed mass meeting of the Progressive
struck right and left, and the 5000 people
present fled in dismay. Indignation meetings
have been held, and the punishment of the
police demanded.
THE principal sugar refners Of the coun-
try are reported to be forming a combin-
alton, with a united capital OF S50,0oO, 0DO.
The great bulk of the business is centered in
New York.
THOMAS G. MANNING, United States Min
lister to Mexico, died few days since in New
York, where he had gone to attend a meeting
of the Peabody Educational Fund. Judge
Manning was about fifty-one years old, and
was native of North Carolina. He moved
in 1855 to Louisiana and served in the Con-
federate army. He was for some years Su-
preme Court Justice of Louisiana.
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South and West.

THE Mexican war veterans OF the United
States will meet in Fort Worth, Texas, No
vember S-l0 and it is expected that there will
be delegates from most of the States.
SAN FRANCISCO is excited over revelations
showing that well-known citizens have fire.
quently bought up jurors.
THE tug Orient foundered in Lake Erie dur
ing the recent storms and her crew of six men
were lost.
The first snow of the season in the Upper
Missouri Valley fell on Thursday. The
mountain peaks of Montana are white with
snow.
A FEUD between the Turner and Sanders
families in Kentucky has already resulted in
the killing of five men.
The corpses of seven men who had evi-
IDENTIFY been murdered were found among the
ruins of disr putable resort at Hurley,
Wis.
SEABoRN GREEN and Silas Hamplin-the
latter an Indian-were hanged together at
Fort Smith, Ark, for murder.
YELLOW FEVER exists in an epidemic form
at Tampa, Fla. Many inhabitants have left
the city.
A TRAIN containing Governor Foraker, Of
Ohio, was derailed near GAINESVILLE. The
Governor escaped by crawling through
window.
In the United States Circuit Court at Rich
mond, Va, Judge Bond fined Attorney-Gen-
eral Ayres $500 for bringing suit under the
law known as the Coupon crusher," in dis
obedience of his injunction order, and COM
mitted him to Jail for refusing to pay the
fine He also fined the Commonwealth At
torneys of Fauquier and Lou Ion counties for
diSobeying the same order, and committed
them until the fines are paid and the suits
brought are dismissed.
A CELEBRATION was had in Cincinnati few
days since by upward Of 200 employees of
Proctor g. Gamble on the occasion of the firm
paying its first scmi-annual share of profits
to the workmen. The shares paid the men,
1875 per cent. on their wages for six months,
aggregated $4,000. Some workmen got as
much as $40. This is the first dividend under
the share plan since its adoption.
JOHN OWENS, trusted messenger Of the
Pacific Express Company, residing in ST.
Louis, has robbed his employers Of between
$4,000 and 100000.
THE Knights of Labor General Assembly
at Minneapolis voted down resolution of
sympathy with the condemned Chicago An
archists by Isl nays to 81 yeas.
The banking house of Morton E. Post &
Co., Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, has
failed, owing depositors, many of them work
ing people, about s500,0OO
The opening ceremonies of the Piedmont
Exposition at Atlanta, Ga, included ad-
dresses by Governor Gordon and Hon. Sam
uel j. Randall.
FOREST fires in the slope counties Of Cali
fornia have burned over many farms and de-
stroyed numerous bridges.
NEWMAN G. FARR, heavy cattle dealers of
ST. Louis, have failed, carrying down also
the Niobrara Land and Cattle Company.
The liabilities are heavy.